[youtube K98eT6j3XUw] A little later than originally planned, here’s the audio of my column on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme back in September about Adam Sandler’s ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry’ movie and the creepy Playgay phenomenon it represents. Click on the MP3 player (right) to start:chuck-and-larry.mp3
Matt Damon is the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’, according to People magazine. Perhaps it’s time to cruise the graveyard. I don’t mean to be cruel — honest — but Matt is preppy, not sexy. The two things are not necessarily antagonistic, granted. But in Matt they are. Yes, I know, it’s… Read More »Matt Damon: Sexy or Twaspy?
An extract from The Queen is Dead: London, 5 October 1997 Dearest Steven, Greetings from the Kingdom of Diana. I never thought I’d live to see a revolution in this country, but that’s almost what happened here after the Princess of Wales took a ride in a car driven by… Read More »The Kingdom of Diana
Why is Britain’s best-selling, sauciest tabloid so unsure of its sexuality? by Mark Simpson, the Guardian (August 24, 2007) The Sun’s TV critic Ally Ross is an unhappy camper. You see, he’s always bitching about TV being ‘too gay’. Which is a rather peculiar thing for a TV critic to… Read More »The Sun Newspaper – How Gay Is It?
America works itself into a mini tizzy over a recently evicted Big Brother contestant’s tarty behaviour. Is he hetero?? Is he homo?? Is he… bi?? We gotta know!! Guys, calm down. He’s obviously, screamingly, flamingly, metro. And like much of the young generation of male narcissists America’s consumer culture has… Read More »Stop Press! Metrosexual in Big Brother USA!